There are two schools of thought on when growth ends in males: 1) You stop growing mostly at 16, and only grow an inch at most afterwards. (This is what CDC data shows). 2) The age of 16 is very young, males grow and mature well into their early 20's.
Most boys only grow at maximum an inch after turning 16, which I haven't anecdotally seen to be the case IRL or on here. I'm really surprised that I grew 2 inches after turning 18, and this is after having my growth "paused" since I was 15.
When I was 16 I first came to this site as a lurker, because I was very scared that I had stopped growing permanently and would forever be very short and have a child-like body. But even now I'm shocked as to how much my body has continued to mature and my torso and chest have masculinized within the past year.
But in retrospect, that just seems so silly. Looking at photos of me at 16... Man I just look so young and small, I can't believe that I thought that my growth was done with, or that I would only grow an inch maximum from that age... I will show some other 16 year olds here:
16 year old Gaten Matarazzo, Stranger Things actor, with his mother: https://www.instagram.com/p/BlgB0zeli6K/
16 year old Tristyn Lee, Instagram bodybuilder, with his brothers: https://www.instagram.com/p/BiUsJzcnpZ-/
16 year old Romeo Beckham with his father, footballer David Beckham: https://www.instagram.com/p/BpZXqJonYdd/
Do you really think they are all done growing? They all look like babies honestly. They are still much smaller than their parents, not just in height but in overall dimorphism and their heads are still so small lol. I can't imagine them growing one inch more at maximum, I anticipate they'll each grow at the very least another 3 inches and masculinize a fair bit, but that wouldn't follow the CDC growth curve or go with what most statistics have to say about stages of development.
I guess there is just a LOT of variability in how people develop.... So much so that an "average" isn't really meaningful.
Quote from: ThatGuy on November 15, 2018, 02:38:30 AMDennis Rodman was 5'10 when he graduated from HS and he wound up being 6'7, Scottie Pippen went from 6'1 to 6'8 at 18/19, Chris Anstey grew 7 inches after the age of 17, the CDC must've got it all wrong. Hell, people say I look like I'm 17 and I'm 26 maybe I'll grow 2-4 inches before I'm 30 which would line up with what my predicted height was supposed to be. Maybe I'll be the next Adam Rainer because my hands and feet are so massive.
Those are all extreme 1/million anomalies though lol... and growing after 25 I’m pretty sure would be an even more extremely anomaly than those.
Quote from: MirinHeight on November 16, 2018, 03:57:31 AMit all depends on when you hit puberty
if you hit puberty earlier, then your growth spurt will be earlier as well
I hit puberty at like 13 and was well beyond the Tanner stage of growing when in height when I still did... that’s why I can’t believe it and I’ve noticed the same in other people.
Granted I’ve had more hair come in... Like I didn’t have armpit hair till I was 17 but I had a friend in 8th grade who had lots of it and didn’t grow a cm more after being 14.
Am I saying armpit hair is an indicator that you’re done growing? No lol.
I’m just saying that the way the body develops is unpredictable and different things happen at different times, it’s not some perfect rigid synchronized system with a chain of linear events.
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